Truculence

/ˈtrʌk.jə.ləns/

Synonyms for "truculence" (87 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

10 entries
aggressionaggressivenessbehavioral traitbelligerencehostilitypersonality traitpugnacityrhetorical styletemperamenttone

More specific

7 entries
abrasive rhetoricbrutal aggressioncombative temperharsh dictionhostile dispositionmilitary aggressionpugnacious conduct

Collocations

6 entries
display of truculencepolitical truculencetone of truculencetruculence in debatetruculence in discoursetruculent rhetoric

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence.

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He was huge in all that he did, and his benevolence was even more overpowering than his truculence.

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Dundy’s fists were clenched in front of his body and his feet were planted firm and a little apart on the floor, but the truculence in his face was modified by thin rims of white showing between green irises and upper eyelids.

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Trump’s truculence on the world stage: “Everyone kowtows to Iran because they’re crazy. Now we have our own bit of crazy.”

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